avatarSuntonu Bhadra

Summary

The article reflects on the human impact on nature, the interconnectedness of life, and the potential for reevaluating what is truly essential for human existence in the face of a changing reality.

Abstract

The text delves into the evolving perception of reality, emphasizing that humans, as part of nature, are paradoxically damaging it in ways similar to a virus. It challenges readers to consider a day without harming nature, questioning the necessity of activities like driving cars, eating non-free-range chicken, drinking milk, and visiting zoos. The author argues that despite human dominance, we lack self-care knowledge, let alone the ability to care for nature. The piece suggests that our priorities may not align with life's true necessities, using the example of oil extraction and the need for sustainable energy sources. It criticizes the human multiplication and subsequent over-extraction of resources, calling for a reevaluation of our contributions to nature. The pandemic has sparked thoughts on the impact of political and economic barriers, the human-centric creation of markets, and the disruption of natural mutation and evolution processes. The author muses over whether the pandemic is nature's way of healing or a test by extraterrestrial beings, or if humanity is living in a simulated reality. The article concludes by expressing the desire to articulate these "gibberish thoughts."

Opinions

  • Humans are harming nature in a manner akin to a virus, despite being part of it.
  • Modern human activities, such as driving cars, consuming processed foods, and visiting zoos, are detrimental to nature.
  • The author suggests that humans, despite their might, do not understand self-care, which extends to a lack of care for the environment.
  • There is a call to reconsider what is truly important for life, beyond the constructs of human markets and supply-demand forces.
  • The author posits that human overpopulation leads to excessive resource extraction, which is unsustainable.
  • The pandemic has brought to light the consequences of human actions on the natural world and the potential for a different approach to living.

Psychology

Gibberish Thoughts

and discerning theories of reality

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The reality and the realization of life’s perspective are changing, in an way we never imagined. Humans are a part of nature, however we are bending & breaking the nature in every possible ways like a virus. So, nature is responding by slapping us in every possible ways we can never comprehend.

Now, THINK about a day when you didn’t harm the nature in any way. Like, running your car by consuming extracted fossil fuel, eating artificially breed chickens as your fries, having a cup of coffee with a hint of milk -stealing it from the cow, visiting zoo where animals are caged and not free like humans to roam around.

Humans might be the mightiest living being on earth, but we do not know how to take care of ourselves (forget about the nature or the earth).

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What we think are important for ourselves doesn’t mean that is important for life.

Consider this: growing fruits and vegetables might be important for having food supply, however what do you think about extracting oil (to run cars, industry, electricity etc.). Now, the discussion might trigger that electricity is important; yes, than identify different methods to create it (solar panel & other techniques to be researched out).

We have multiplied ourselves unlike any other & to sustain ourselves, we are extracting any available resources — thus milking out the nature. We really need to rethink, what we are contributing as a part of the nature.

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During this pandemic, couple of interesting thoughts or theories actually popped up in mind, which I wanted to put into words:

  • If there was no political and economical barriers within the countries, we could have wear-out the virus eventually, but probably at faster rate.
  • What we think are essential for life are completely different, because the market, the industries and the supply-demand force are only created for human by human to keep running the multiplication of growing population.
  • Because humans had and still are roaming around the world; we are breaking apart the elements of the existence. We are displacing elements (i.e. zoo animals brought from different parts of the world, which were actually part of that location, now coming to different location), which means the natural process of mutation and evolution happened for million years are not taking place naturally. Thus displacing nature’s elements into different places (i.e. virus, bacteria etc.) and causing havoc.
  • Or, perhaps this is the natural process of nature’s healing; omitting the outbreak like us.
  • Or, perhaps we are in the test-field of alien’s laboratory- where they are looking into how this self-destructing living being behaves or reacts to every new condition. In that case, we are not to be blamed.
  • Or, perhaps we are in a computer generated infused reality, where we think what we are and what we should do.
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Whatever thoughts kicked-in, I wanted to put those into words. The gibberish thoughts -first part ends here.

Self
Life
Psychology
Mindfulness
Mental Health
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